CC Minutes - 10/11/10 Work Session

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MINUTES Eugene City Council McNutt Room — Eugene City Hall 777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon October 11, 2010 5:30 p.m. PRESENT: Mike Clark, Betty Taylor, Jennifer Solomon, George Poling, Chris Pryor, Andrea Ortiz, George Brown, Alan Zelenka. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the October 11, 2010, work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. COMMITTEE REPORTS AND ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, AND CITY MANAGER Mayor Piercy expressed appreciation for the turnout for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, reporting that about 7,000 people participated in the October 10 event. Mayor Piercy called residents' attention to Eugene Financial Planning Day, an event sponsored by the City of Eugene and the Financial Planning Association of Mid - Oregon, scheduled for October 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sheldon Community Center. Financial advisors would be present to offer free one -on- one advice to residents on a variety of topics. Mayor Piercy reported that she would be unable to attend the Metropolitan Policy Committee meeting scheduled on October 14 because she would be at the State of Civil Rights Oregon Forum on the University of Oregon campus as co -chair of the Oregon League of Minority Voters, which was also a co- sponsor of the event. Mayor Piercy reported that on October 15, she would participate on a City Club panel discussing the topic Place Making and Parochialism: The Conundrum of Mid -Sized Communities with Shelley Poticha, Director for the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Corvallis Mayor Charlie Tomlinson. Mr. Clark said that the annual Willamette River Clean -up occurred on October 2, and he thanked Recreation Equipment, Inc., and river advocate John Brown as well as other residents for their work in cleaning up the river. Mr. Clark said and Ms. Ortiz attended the Oregon Department of Transportation's October 4 Beltline Steering Committee meeting, at which ODOT presented some high -level policy considerations and the Stakeholder Advisory Committee report. The advisory committee recommended taking some of the existing options off the table and adding the importance of recognizing safety considerations and safety improvements to the policy direction underlying the project. Mr. Clark and Ms. Ortiz had suggested to ODOT that it provide the City Council with another project update. He would poll the council on a work session date for the update. He noted that the next step in the process was the federal National Environ- mental Protection Act (NEPA) process. MINUTES— Eugene City Council October 11, 2010 Page 1 Work Session